Keane rewrites Haaland history

The Manchester United captain has changed the section of his book dealing with a notorious episode, says David Bond

ROY KEANE’S controversial autobiography looks set to cause a new stir after it emerged he has been forced to rewrite the passage in which he claimed he set out to deliberately injure former Manchester City player Alf Inge Haaland.

The Manchester United captain was banned for five matches and fined £150,000 last October after he was found guilty by a Football Association tribunal of deliberately trying to injure Haaland and profiting from the incident by writing about it.

But as part of the conditions of his punishment, Keane has been told to remove the controversial claim from a new edition due out next month.

Eamon Dunphy, Keane’s ghostwriter, said the controversial paragraph has had words “omitted to suit the decision of the tribunal”.

“Words have changed in the section about Haaland so now there is a semantic difference in the passage,” Dunphy said. “It will be understood differently.”